L. Ron Hubbard
From Project Chanology - Toronto Division
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Biography
L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska in March 1911. The son of a US Navy officer, Hubbard was educated in public schools in Montana, California, Washington and Virginia. From 1930 to 1932 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Although Hubbard would later claim advanced degrees in the sciences and in civil engineering, his first year grade average was a D (below average). His second and final year was no better; he received a D in calculus and electrical and magnetic physics, and an F (failing) for molecular and atomic physics. He had no further formal education. Despite this, he was later awarded an honorary Ph.D. by Sequoia University, California, "in recognition of his outstanding work and contributions in the fields of Dianetics and Scientology." This non-accredited body was closed by the California state courts some 30 years later after it was investigated by California authorities on the grounds of being a mail-order "degree mill."
He embarked on a successful career as a pulp fiction writer, best known for his science fiction stories. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the US Navy; at no time was he engaged in combat action. In 1950 he published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The book became a best seller and within a few months Hubbard had established the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation to teach the healing techniques he claimed to have discovered. Following the foundation's collapse in bankruptcy, he founded the Hubbard College.
In 1952 he renamed his organization the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. In 1954 Hubbard created the Church of Scientology, which subsequently absorbed the earlier organization. The church bought several ocean-going craft and from 1967 to 1975 Hubbard, styling himself as the "Commodore," lived largely at sea. Theoretically having given up his role as leader of the church in 1966, he in fact controlled it tightly until his reclusive death in Creston, California on January 24, 1986.
The above biography is as close to the facts as can be verified by available documentation.
Lies
The following claims about Hubbard have been put forward by Scientology. Not one of them has been established as true.
- He was trained as a nuclear physicist.
- One of his classes was indeed among the nation's first schools offering curriculum in molecular and atomic physics, however he failed the course.
- At the age of six, he was honored with the status of blood brother of the Blackfeet in a ceremony that is still recalled by tribal elders.
- The white Blackfeet historian Hugh Dempsey has commented that the act of blood brotherhood was "never done among the Blackfeet", and Blackfeet Nation officials have disavowed attempts to "re-establish" Hubbard as a "blood brother" of the Blackfeet. Former vice president of the tribe's executive committee, John Yellow Kidney has also said of the letter claiming to re-establish Hubbard as a blood brother, "You should not give [the document] very much credibility, I don't."
- He was the youngest Eagle Scout in the history of the Boy Scouts.
- According to the Boy Scouts of America, their documents at the time were only kept in alphabetical order with no reference to their ages—thus there was no way of telling who was the youngest.
- The following years, from 1925 to 1929, saw the young Mr Hubbard, between the ages of 14 and 18, as a budding and enthusiastic world traveller and adventurer. His father was sent to the Far East and having the financial support of his wealthy grandfather, L. Ron Hubbard, spent these years journeying through Asia.
- With virtually no training time, he took up powered flight and barnstormed throughout the Midwest.
- His family owned a ranch 1/3 the size of Montana.
- His first action on leaving college was to blow off steam by leading an expedition into Central America. In the next few years he headed three, all of them undertaken to study savage peoples and cultures to provide fodder for his articles and stories. Between 1933 and 1941 he visited many barbaric cultures and yet found time to write seven million words of published fact and fiction.
- He has published some fourteen movies.
- He served in the South Pacific, and in 1942 was relieved by fifteen officers of rank and was rushed home to take part in the 1942 battle against German submarines as Commanding Officer of a Corvette serving in the North Atlantic. In 1943 he was made Commodore of Corvette Squadrons, and in 1944 he worked with amphibious forces. After serving in all five theaters of World War II and receiving 21 medals and palms, in 1944 he was severely wounded and was taken crippled and blinded to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
- He spent 11 years researching Dianetics.
LRH II
Since Scientologists believe in reincarnation (yup, that thetan inside of you is just itching to get out and jump right into another body—why? for the lulz, of course), there has been much speculation within the insular Co$ community about the very real (!!!!) possibility that LRH's return is imminent. Of particular note is the belief held by many Scientologists that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' child, Suri, is indeed the reincarnation of LRH, who has come to take back the reins of power and usher Scientology into a Golden Age. Why a hyperactive band of cultists would want to give a loli total control over their lives is beyond Anonymous's imagination, although it is pretty lulzy. You just gotta feel sorry for the poor kid, though... hopefully she'll turn out like Jenna Miscavige.
The real heroes
Sources
- Bare-Faced Messiah - the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, by Russell Miller
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
- http://www.xenu.net/archive/infopack/4.htm
See also
- http://www.omnivore.org/jon/orwell/2007b/Xenu/Xenu.htm - National Post article
